Culture

I didn’t know he had a web site! He is one of the only playwrights, along with Stoppard and Albee, that can get me to actually pay Broadway prices for a ticket.

I meant to post this weeks ago, after seeing it at Schroeder Romero:

Cephalopods of cast glass by Julia Kunin. She buys frozen octopi in Chinatown and casts them in glass. If you’re really into cephalopods, check out my friend Tony’s web site.

Salon has an essay on Dirk Bogarde that should not be missed. What passes for acting these days in the movie industry is appalling.

Today’s Cathy is for all of us looking for friends/love/whatever on the web.

Yesterday we celebrated the holiday by going to Central Park for a performance of Inverse Theater’s Washington: The American Revolution. They are an interesting theater company, specializing in contemporary plays in verse (more like Shakespearean blank verse). I was very impressed by the writing, and the cast was charismatic and talented. I was particularly impressed by Joshua Spafford as Benedict Arnold. Both the play and his performance provided a very nuanced look at one of the most famous but least understood Americans. Robert Laine was hilarious in several roles, especially the hangman. A few photos may be found here.

It will be at the Fringe Festival too. I think it’s worth seeing.

As I was getting ready to purchase a few gifts for my Mother’s birthday, such as this recording of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, I see the usual Amazon thing of “Customers who bought this also bought”… which gives me

Blinded by the Right by David Brock (No, don’t go buy it!)

Weird.

Courtesy of The Guardian, a guide to Sigmund Freud on the web. This one’s for Gabriella, daughter of a psychoanalyst.

Mike Batt, a British composer and producer, heard from the royalties police after doing a “cover” of John Cage’s 4’33". Story courtesy of The Blackwood Channel.

Cool… Anthony Goicolea has a web site. I love his work, and I seem to keep seeing him in the neighborhood lately.

In These Times has a good essay on 100 years of Japanese film — Popcorn and Sake. The online version is missing his list of eight films to start with:

• Rashomon
• Floating Weeds
• An Actor’s Revenge
• Double Suicide
• The Funeral
• Ran
• Princess Mononoke
• After Life